Franz Ferdinand condemn IDF for using ‘Take Me Out’ in propaganda video

Franz Ferdinand have condemned the use of their 2003 hit ‘Take Me Out’ in a propaganda video made by the Israeli army.

Frontman Alex Kapranos posted on his Instagram Stories criticising the IDF for using their music “without our consent.”

The IDF propaganda video features footage of fighter planes and ground explosions, while an Israeli soldier praises the country's on-going attacks on Iran.

“These warmongering murderers are using our music without our consent,” Kapranos hit back. “This makes us both nauseous and furious. Kind of typical though, isn’t it? To strut up and take what isn’t theirs with a vile arrogance…”

Israel's illegal attacks on Iran are co-ordinated with bombing carried out by the US military, on the orders of Donald Trump and his misnamed Secretary of Defence, Peter Hegseth.

Hegseth, a forme Fox News presenter, is increasingly being seen as a dangerous individual, grossly unfit for the role that was handed to him by Trump. He boasted in a press briefing that the Iranian regime is "toast, and they know it. Or at least soon enough they will know it."

The aim of American military aggression now, he had said previously, is for "maximum lethality, not tepid legality. Violent effect, not politically correct." Or to put it in slightly different language it is okay to murder children. It was confirmed today that the US was almost certainly responsible for the bombing of Shajareh Tayyebeh school in Minab, in a strike that killed 168 people, most of them 7-12 year old girls.

"America is winning decisively, devastatingly, and without mercy,” he added, gloating also about "punching them while they're down, which is exactly how it should be."

It echoed a comment at a previous press conference, early last week, when he bragged that there would be “no stupid rules of engagement, no nation-building quagmire, no democracy-building exercise, no politically correct wars."

Franz Ferdinand have been vocal critics of the US President, Donald Trump, in the past, criticising him in their 2016 track ‘Demagogue’ which came out as part of an independent campaign created by “Artists for a Trump-free America.”

The band recently performed in Dublin's National Stadium for a night of "showmanship and technical excellence."

Meanwhile, in a statement about the US-Israeli attacks on Iran issued yesterday, President of Ireland Catherine Connolly said: "What we have witnessed in recent days in the Middle East, and beyond, are not political disputes. They are deliberate assaults on international law, the international laws that have underpinned global peace for 80 years. We must name them as such, without euphemism and without equivocation."